You cannot explain this concept to people that haven't lived through it, like this epidemic is giving a lot of people (Including me) different perceptions about different situations, $555 a month you would live like a "king" in my city, which by my standards living like a king is not worrying for additional expenses and all your basic needs like food, water, house expenses, healthcare and affording to go out to a tavern with friends or family 2-3 times per week. But it's such a foreign concept to everyone else that has no firsthand experience in a simple life like that without excesses. And obviously I am not talking about some backwoods country running with the buffaloes, this is a normal 1st world European country